Woofing
Zora Neale Hurston
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Description
Zora Neale Hurston's Three Plays gathers Lawing and Jawing, Forty Yards, and Woofing, transcribed from her own manuscripts with pencilled notes kept in the text. Lawing and Jawing opens in Judge Dunfumy's court at Waycross, Georgia, where a clerk, lawyers, and a crowd await the judge under a red arrow marked To Jail. The other two plays carry the same folk humor and stage craft.
Hurston writes in Black southern speech of her day, with courtroom jokes, quick talk, and sharp character sketches. The plays are short, lively, and made for performance rather than print alone. They give a rare early stage voice from a major writer, and they still play well in a classroom or small theatre.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zora Neale Hurston |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |